malefactee

noun

malefactee

noun

Etymology From malefact(or) + -ee.

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Synonym of maleficiary.

  • To my knowledge, Gil (1982) was the first scholar to refer to the indirect object of verbs like belong, happen, matter, occur, etc., as the benefactee or malefactee.2021, González, Luis H., The Fundamentally Simple Logic of Language, Routledge Focus, 2021

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